
Variant: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Source: Conquistadora
Variant: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 2"<!-- 255 -->
Source: The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: It seems to me like this. It's not a terrible thing — I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoning, to do without something one really wants. It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Julie Barenson, Chapter 15, p. 163
2000s, The Guardian (2003)